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  La Puerta Waco seeks to connect Hispanics to resources

  First Baptist Church in Waco launched La Puerta Waco, a community ministry to connect Hispanics with legal and social services, about two months ago.

  12/05/2017 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Europe’s Muslim population growing but won’t be a majority soon

  Even if migration to Europe ceased—no immigrants, no refugees—the percentage of Muslims in those countries would still rise over the next three decades, according to new projections from the Pew Research Center.

  12/04/2017 - By Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service

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  Survey seeks qualities of effective directors of missions

  Opinions of leaders in all areas of Southern Baptist life are solicited in an online survey studying the qualities of effective leadership by associational directors of missions.

  12/04/2017 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Bill that would allow churches to receive FEMA aid advances in Congress

  Churches, synagogues, mosques and other faith-based community centers damaged in a natural disaster could be eligible for federal disaster relief funds under a measure approved by a congressional committee.

  12/04/2017 - By Ken Camp

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  C.S. Lewis believed in purgatory, for heaven’s sake

  A mainline Protestant professor of philosophy from a Baptist university explained why it made sense for an Anglican author and evangelical icon to believe in a variation on the Catholic doctrine of purgatory.

  12/04/2017 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  San Antonio Christians rally to support Dreamers

  Patty Villarreal could not ignore the concerns her students at Baptist University of the Américas expressed about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Her Christian commitment and background in social work prompted compassion and spurred her to action.

  11/29/2017 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Around the State: DBU honors Orville Rogers; ETBU athletes support Operation Christmas Child

  Dallas Baptist University presented the 2017 Russell H. Perry Free Enterprise Award to Orville Rogers, longtime volunteer missions pilot and 100-year-old fitness enthusiast. The East Texas Baptist University Athletic Department sponsored a wrapping party to prepare toy-filled shoeboxes donated to the Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child initiative.

  11/29/2017 - By Ken Camp

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  FBI and religion scholars reflect on relationship long after Branch Davidian crisis

  After federal authorities accidentally triggered a 1993 fire that killed 75 members of an obscure Christian sect near Waco, one of the lessons law enforcement learned was to call religion experts in a crisis where faith is a factor.

  11/29/2017 - By Ken Camp

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  Supreme Court denies hearing to Birdville school board prayer challenge

  The U.S. Supreme Court announced Nov. 27 it would not hear a case challenging a Tarrant County school district’s practice that allows students to lead public prayers at school board meetings.

  11/29/2017 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Puerto Rico missionary’s relief ministry opens hearts

  Even in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Southern Baptist missionary Jorge Santiago has experienced the truth of Romans 8:28—that God can work all things together for good.

  11/28/2017 - By Ken Camp

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  Interfaith panel champions religious liberty as universal value

  “The darkest memories produce rays of light,” Sofi Hersher, a staff member of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, told an interfaith gathering sponsored by a Texas Baptist church in Round Rock.

  11/28/2017 - By Marv Knox / Fellowship Southwest

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  Baylor panel focuses on solutions to fight hunger and poverty

  Nonprofit specialists working to develop innovative solutions to hunger and poverty in communities focused on faith, politics and hope for America during the annual Drumwright Family Lecture at Baylor University.

  11/27/2017 - By Joy Moton / Baylor University